PVP?

Man, what I wouldn’t give for more battle network…

“Who’s ‘we all’?” - The Southern Hemisphere

Ace Combat. Seems rather dull on the face of it but goddamn are the geopolitics compelling.

Piss, I’m glad I live in a country where that’s illegal.

Circum-Pacific War. The Belkan War’s so overrated.

I’d like to submit my two favorite buddies from AC games for consideration.

Rusty from Armoured Core VI, especially the final fight against him in Breach The Karman Line. With that backdrop and his sweet ass AC sliding to a stop while you can hear the pure venom in his voice “Here we are… buddy…” as Steel Haze starts playing.

And then we have Ace Combat Zero, having just prevented the V2 launch, flying back to base when your wingman gets one shot by a fucking laser, and you see your former wingman, Pixy, in a hitherto unseen aircraft and hear the flamenco accompanied by that voice: “So, have you found a reason to fight yet… Buddy?”.

Similar themes across both, and both are absolutely iconic.

the end is never the end is never the end is never

I hadn’t considered it like that but yeah, if there was ever a game about nothing, the Stanley Parable is it.

The entire Ace Combat series, particularly from 4 onward are almost entirely comprised of the best music I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t reccomend all the specific tracks because i’d probably hit some sort of character limit but each game has a “flagship” track which I’ll highlight here:

• Rex Tremendae + Megalith -Agnus Dei-
• The Unsung War (special mention to First Flight)
• Zero
• The Liberation of Gracemeria
• Daredevil

Also will reccomend both the Metal Gear Saga (e.g. …Metal Gear Saga)

And the Boss themes from Metal Gear Rising

• Rules of Nature
• I’m My Own Master Now
• A Stranger I Remain
• The Stains of Time
• Red Sun
• The Only Thing I Know For Reap
• Collective Consciousness
• It Has To Be This Way

Never thought this’d be this relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69BMS6LIw8Q

Might be a bit more basic and/or wide in scope than what you want but just in case it’s worth picking up anything by Karl Kruszelnicki; AKA Dr Karl.

“These verification systems are robust and effective, just take our word for it though. Don’t ask what they are, just take our word for it.”

I’m sorry, is this some sort of imperial joke I’m too metric to understand?

Working class Australia too. Dare, Ice Break, and Farmer’s Union flow through the blood of every tradie.

Hello friend. Just want to make sure you’re aware of our (admittedly tiny) community here: https://lemmy.zip/c/acecombat@lemmy.world

EndeavourOS. It’s the only one I tried that worked with my sound card out of the box strangely enough…

If that’s the actual splash screen that pops up when you try to access it (no, I’m not going to go to it and check, I don’t want to be on a new and exciting list) then kudos to the person who put that together. Shit goes hard. So do all the agency logos.

The “real transportation” line would be funnier if the plane was actually real